In June 2026, US far right figures and manosphere influencers appeared at Russian state-linked events and in military propaganda. These moments, argues Anna Kuteleva, reveal a mutually beneficial alliance: Russia offers legitimacy, platforms, and refuge, while the anti-gender right normalises authoritarianism by recasting it as culture war
A recent independent commission report revealed that people from India’s Daman and Diu region, who hold Portuguese passports, were ‘important actors’ in the 2022 outbreaks of violence in Leicester. Sonia Sarkar unpacks how multicultural Leicester turned communally divisive
Donald Trump's second presidential campaign in 2024 used immigration as a wedge issue. To understand why anti-immigrant sentiment translates so powerfully into Republican votes, says Matt Polacko, we need to look beyond the rhetoric and focus on the economic conditions that make people receptive to it
Drawing on developments in candidate selection across British political parties, Pierce Leslie argues that Britain’s representative disconnect begins long before election day. While it is local constituencies who elect MPs, party rules, vetting procedures and emergency panels increasingly decide who becomes a realistic parliamentary choice
As Keir Starmer prepares to vacate 10 Downing Street, his unwavering opposition to Vladimir Putin has been hailed as his finest, most ‘statesmanlike’ achievement. Ruairidh Brown argues this assessment is fundamentally mistaken. Starmer stretched the trope of British leaders re-fighting the Second World War to its breaking poin
Anti-gender politics does not only attack rights. It attacks the knowledge that makes those rights intelligible. Massimo Prearo argues that anti-gender politics is an epistemic conflict as much as a political one. This conflict generates political fatigue among researchers engaged in feminist and queer work. We must address such fatigue through distance, care and collective reflection
Nigerian queer activists have achieved a High Court ruling declaring parts of the country's Same-Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Act unconstitutional. Yet registrars, banks, police, and landlords are refusing to honour the ruling, reducing it to a mere 'victory on paper'. Matthew K. Gichohi, Ayodele Sogunro, and Liv Tønnessen argue that queer rights are eroded through bureaucracy, not legislation
Andy Burnham’s expected arrival in Downing Street may end Labour’s leadership crisis, but Dennis Shen says it has opened a far larger debate about Britain’s economic future. As markets assess the implications of a Burnham premiership, questions are emerging over fiscal policy, Britain’s vulnerability to bond market pressures and whether Labour may gradually move closer towards Europe by the next general elections
Serena Fraiese argues that transitional justice rarely collapses in one dramatic moment. In Guatemala and Tunisia, formal courts and legal bodies remain in place, but political actors have gradually repurposed them from within. This process of 'captured justice' weakens accountability, shrinks civic space, and makes the pursuit of truth, justice, and reparations increasingly difficult
Amir Alecperov argues that Russian emigration after 2022 has not produced a break with imperial thinking – it has exported it. From Central Asia to the Baltic states and Germany, a troubling pattern emerges: Russians abroad carry the same mentality that enabled the war. Host states have the right, and the tools, to respond
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